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SUMMER SKIN NATURALS

Summer is upon us in the Southern Hemisphere and with it the sizzling heat and inevitable sweat, kindly served by our largest breathing organ- skin. Our meat's container is not only our largest detoxifying avenue but also a factory for our vitamin D reserves, a necessary hormone which plays a role in immune regulation […]

ON THE HYPOCRISY OF BEAUTY IN THE 21st CENTURY

I’m a hypocrite when it comes to beauty and chances are you are too. We can hardly help it living in the glossy , fomo inducing Instagram world of the 21st century with it’s neverending rolodex of perfection. Our skewed perceptions on what it is to be or feel beautiful are generated by our family, friends, […]

What's new in beauty?

Make up is one of those perks us women get in life to experiment and transform ourselves with – I wear lipstick on days I feel tired and lashings of eyeshadow when I go out. Still, I feel like often times I get stuck in a make up rut, repeating the same old looks again […]

Travel Tips no 3

Could I be classified as a travel accessory hoarder? Possibly ; ) It all depends on your personal definition of what classifies as a travel essential. I have written a couple of these posts before - if you’ve read them, you’ll know that I take my onboard comfort seriously. Along with bringing along my water […]

Holiday Make Up Essentials

When I go on holidays I don't wear make up 95% of the time. I'd like to say it's because it's good to let the skin breathe ( it is ) but frankly, I just can't be bothered. Holidays should be all about being lazy so when I finally find myself on vacay being leisurely […]

How A Dyson Supersonic Can Change Your Life

Wearing Gucci dress, Nars Schiap lipstick I don't often get over-excited and enthusiastic about small appliances but when I took home a Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer, it was as if I was a kid on Christmas morning cradling a brand new toy I had long wished for. I have incredibly high expectations of a product’s […]

How To Go From Day To Night In A Flash

Wearing Equipment shirt from Edwards Imports, Holly Ryan earrings, Ellery jacket, Smooth Miracle Primer, Miracle Touch Foundation and Eyefinity Smokey Eye Pencil in Black charcoal and brushed copper. Glam in under 10 minutes Some days, I wake up in the morning and everything goes smoothly; alarm goes off on time, child doesn’t wake me up […]

How To Achieve A Flawless Complexion

There isn’t anything like healthy, even and smooth skin that makes me feel more self-confident in my day to day life. With so much time spent on the go, I can’t afford to spend hours on such fanciful pursuits as lengthy make up applications or time consuming beauty regimes so; I’ve had to find other […]

How to find your perfect hair colour

How good is that feeling of walking out of a salon with freshly coloured hair, sunshine falling on expertly coloured highlights, wind lifting up strands to reveal multi-dimensional tones while soft, healthy hair shines in the afternoon glow? It’s an incredible feeling yet for so many it’s often unreachable. This kind of hair perfection is […]

How to add drama to the new season

It’s all about the impact From Gucci to Valentino, the runways seem to be awash with a new message: minimalism is dead, long live maximalism! Sure, there are times when we need a little normcore in our lives, but forever? How boring. I’m a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl most days but the days I […]

How to extend a salon treatment

In a whirlwind of travelling and my daughter getting sick, 2 weeks have gone past in a flash so here is my promised update on how my hair is faring post my amazing experience with System Professional. I really loved my salon service experience, yet does it really last? To be honest, I was dubious […]

How to make hair shine

How to make healthy hair happen My hair has had an abysmal ride through life – I’ve been platinum blonde, bright red and every shade in between, often times on a whim. It’s been heat styled daily until it singed off, thrown into chlorine ‘till it developed a green tinge and salt encrusted until it […]

Christmas with SK-II

“Last Christmas I gave you my heart..”- George Michael is belting out his perennial 80s hit as I bring decorations down from the cupboard. I open the box with elation, comforted by the pretty, familiar baubles, shiny tassel and fairy lights that have undoubtedly mysteriously got tangled up again in a frustratingly confusing way, as […]

How to wear mascara day to night

On my days off, I’m not much of a make up girl, but catch me on a work day or on the way to an event and you’ll see someone who looks quite made up. Ok, to be fair, my make up skills are questionable at best as they are always put to practice between […]

Why you need a superfood mask

Superfoods have gained a name for themselves in the last few years as being the ultimate health elixir, instrumental not only in giving us vibrant energy but providing us with a power house of nutrients we would struggle to accumulate in our daily western diet otherwise. Jumping on to the superfood bandwagon was something that […]

At home with L'oreal Elvive

Having a shoot at one's house is never a relaxing proposition. Especially not when your cleaner cancels on you last minute leaving you with a 3.5 hr cleaning sentence on top of a roast dinner and an excitable child that just can't stop asking questions way past their bedtime...once you finally fall asleep in the wee hours […]

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